Everything Is on the Move: The Mamluk Empire as a Node in (Trans-)Regional Networks

In this volume, we try to understand the "Mamluk Empire" not as a confined space but as a region where several nodes of different networks existed side-by-side and at the same time. In our opinion, these networks constitute to a great extent the core of the so-called Mamluk society; they form the basis of the social order. Following, in part, concepts refined in the New Area Studies, recent reflections about the phenomenon of the "Empire - State", trajectories in today's Global History, and the spatial turn in modern historiography, we intend to identify a number of physical and cognitive networks with one or more nodes in Mamluk-controlled territories. In addition to this, one of the most important analytical questions would be to define the role of these networks in Mamluk society.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3847102745
• ISBN13: 9783847102748
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"